On Wednesday, Vijaya Gadde, Twitter's legal, policy and trust & safety lead, announcedin a blog post that the company would remove locked accounts from follower lists.

Prime Minister Modi, according to socialblade.com, lost 2, 84,746 followers and now has 43.1 million followers.

You can see it here. Social media maven Kim Kardashian West lost about 1.5 million followers. He's likely still going to keep tweeting out news and calling others out on their fake news reports, but the president and many others are going to be doing it to smaller audiences thanks to the Twitter purge.

The social media giant began Thursday removing "locked" accounts, which have been made inactive until further verification by Twitter. Officials said this will help make Twitter a "more trusted service for public conversation". That represents nearly 2.5% of their respective followers. Trump remains the 18th most-followed person on Twitter.

"Over the years, we've locked accounts when we detected sudden changes in account behavior". Twitter initially warned that its culling of fake followers would affect about 6% of all follows, so Perry actually may have got off lightly. Justin Bieber lost close to the same amount as the former president, but many other celebrities saw their numbers drop too and that includes the CEO of Twitter himself.

For Twitter, anyone who tweets a large volume of unsolicited replies, unnecessarily tags a large number of people or tweets misleading links becomes a suspicious user. Mr. Gandhi's account, @RahulGandhi, lost over 13,000 followers from 72.23 lakh on Thursday to 72.21 lakh on Friday.

Kenyans took to Twitter to "mark themselves safe" and call out accounts with fake followers using the #TwitterCleanupKE and also poked fun at those who have been affected.

Around 54,000 rescuers, drawn from the military, police and fire departments are working across the west and southwest. People affected by the recent flooding rest at a makeshift shelter in Mabi, Okayama prefecture, Japan , July 11, 2018.

It was a deep year of nominations for minority performers, who accounted for over one-third of Thursday's acting nominees. The 70th annual Primetime Emmys will air September 17 from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

Why can't they get smoke detectors? Johnson is blaming the apartment complex for not having adequate Carbon dioxide alarm systems. Johnson said he believes his wife's death could have been prevented if the apartment garage had adequate alarm systems in place.

The controversial 45th President of the United States will visit the UK for the first time in his position on Thursday, July 12. Neither Trump nor North Atlantic Treaty Organisation offered specifics on what Trump said he had achieved.

But Mr Trump appeared to link Brexit to the current trade dispute between the USA and European Union over steel and aluminium. But the balloon will not be allowed to fly over his Turnberry golf course, Police Scotland have said.

Now, Anderson will face American John Isner , who will be making his Grand Slam semi-final debut on the Centre Court. In the third set, the 33-year-old American fended off two set points and won the tiebreak 11-9.

Martin. "You are basically writing a show about the way you pray that the world won't go, and then it starts going that way". Leading the nominations in totals by platform were Netflix (112), leapfrogging last year's leader HBO, which scored 108.

Further, the £100 million that they received from Juventus can be perfectly reinvested by signing Hazard. Real Madrid have a deal in place for Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois , it has been revealed.

However, the unexpected boom of streaming services like Netflix dealt a blow to video stores that they could not recover from. Daymude said the items will be returned to the owner of the stores. "I can't tell you how much it means to us".

The Denver Nuggets have agreed to a one-year deal with free agent guard Isaiah Thomas, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN . He's coming off a season in which he played in 15 games for the Cavaliers and in 17 games with the Lakers.

Weeks after murdering Till, Roy Bryant and Milam were acquitted after a jury deliberation that lasted just one hour. Emmett Till was 14 years old when he visited family in the Mississippi Delta during the summer of 1955.

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